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KARA HETZ

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kara Hetz is a jewelry artist working in her Philadelphia studio. She earned her BFA from West Virginia University and her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, both in Studio Arts. Making jewelry and working with metal became a post-graduate passion and she received her metalsmithing training primarily at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I’m inspired by the interplay of the physical and the emotional and how we relate to the objects we keep. As a designer, I am continually exploring uncommon ways to present common forms. I am intrigued by the sensuality of metal--how the static becomes fluid and the ways the material can be infinitely transformed. I love the process of building pieces architecturally, and the marriage of structure and organic elements is especially engaging. I aspire to create functional, beautiful and wearable pieces, external reminders of the things that we carry.”